Well, I hear something else. It's the Hug Plane, and it's coming in for a landing.

Friday, July 21

Friday Random Ten, A New Hope edition.

Things may be going to hell in a five-pound bag on the other side of the world -- wait, no, I mean there may be ten pounds of shit in a handbasket -- dammit! I drank too much last night and I can't keep my homespun epithets straight! -- but at least here, in America, some things appear to be going right. In Georgia, Ralph Reed -- an even bigger embarrassment to me as a Georgia grad than Quincy Carter or, hell, Jim Harrick -- got bounced right out of the primary for lieutenant governor; here in Alabama, Patricia Todd won the runoff for state legislature in House District 54, so we've got at least a little progressiveness going for us. The Braves finally have a closer; the Dawgs have a bunch of guys on the preseason all-SEC list. When all is said and done, things could be worse.

"[Your raw sexual magnetism is so overpowering that I don't know what I might do around you, so for my own safety it's probably best if you s]tay at least 200 feet away from me at all times."
— Erin Andrews, ESPN